Re: RH8: wtf do I find APXS ???

[-{ Rene Brehmer }- <metalbunny metalbunny net>]

On 05 May 2003 01:43:34 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote something about "Re:
RH8: wtf do I find APXS ???" what the universal translator turned into:

> On Du, 2003-05-04 at 17:06, -{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote:
> > Hi y'all
> > 
> > Totally newbie here, and totally dumbfound by the way program files are
> > spread all over the system when installed....
> we can see that :)

Actually ... I worked alot with Linux 3-4 years ago ... but haven't touched
it since ... so most things are gone out the window ... like starting a
fresh ... with a steep learning curve because I have to deal with it at work
...

> > Again according to the build 'strucs I go by, apxs is needed to run PHP as
> > DSO ... so where do I find this thing ???
> questions like these can be answered at rpmfind.net
> type the file name and you'll see what rpm provides it.

Found out ... after some serious search & find on the web ... that what I'm
looking for is in Apache-ver-devel ... but I believe I installed everything
Apache ... so my problem is really finding it on the system ... not the disc
... but I guess I gotta double-check that I actually got the devel installed
...

> > <rant>
> > Simply can't see the benefit of spreading the bins across several folders,
> > have several more symlinks to same folders, and then leaving the use with a
> > total mess of figuring out where everything went upon installation ... If
> > Linux is ever to make it into the common workstation scene, it really needs
> > to be cleaned up folder wise ... otherwise it will be completely impossible
> > for unnixed peeps to maintain ...
> > </rant>

> they need to learn how to take advantage of this. *nix won't be dumbed
> down to be easier to grasp by newbies. Newbies should RTFM ( F has the
> same meaning as F in your subject ) if they want to get more from their
> Linux system other than mail, browsing and office.

>From experience with friends and acquaintances, just getting to the manual
can be a trial in itself ... the man system is apparently not transparent
enough for all Window jockies to figure out ...

As old DOS and OS/2 man, my biggest challenge have been to learn the Linux
way of doing things ... and especially figuring out where the h... RH puts
the files ... especially since they seem to change the locations with every
distro ... so where I learn to look for things on one machine, is not where
to find it on another ... I can't see the benefit of seperating the bins
from supports so greatly as it's apparently done on my RH8 ... all I request
is bins one place, docs another, conf somewhere third ... and so on ... but
keep bins near bins, conf near conf (okay, most conf are in /etc/ I've
found, but still ...). Mike logic says me that /usr/ is user files ... when
it's actually where 90% of the bins are ... and user files are in /home/ ...

It's merely the naming and organization that seems a bit messy and not
entirely logical ... of course I could build everything from scratch and put
it where I want it ... but the whole point in going distro is after all to
avoid that ...

Rene
Rene Brehmer
aka Metalbunny

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